Says the moron from the party of Ney, Cunningham and Abramoff. JK you are a coward and a punk. When will TP ban this fool?

paleolib Says:
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More likely that Blagojevich knew the indictment was coming and threw up the BoA issue as a smoke screen. This doesn’t smell like a setup. Fitz has a track record of straight shooting and the report indicates that Blagojevich was trying to extort an appointment from Obama in exchange for naming the preferred successor to the vacant Senate seat. If this was political an indictment would have come down the week before the election. Obama is probably just as happy to have this out now.

Obama rejected the extortion attempt very quickly; within just a few days of Jarrett being identified as his choice for the Senate, he named her to a White House job instead. It looks like he kept his hands clean in the whole deal.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all

They’ll blow it out of proportion.

Just like in a lot of states, voters in Illinois are getting EXACTLY what they deserve or want.

Maybe, now they can be serious about who they vote into office, and rather than coveting corruption, voters can pay attention to seekers of elective office who SHUN corruption! OsiSpeaks.com

We’re just trying to to be fair and balanced. You mention two dems and elaborate on both of them and then mention(barley)one rep in passing.

Just doesn’t seem balanced in todays realities…..

With all due respect, that is utter nonsense – following this logic, EVERY politician in IL is “suspect” because they “associate” with Blagojevich as part of their job.

Guilt by association is used by those who have nothing of fact or substance to go after someone. Didn’t work with Ayers, won’t work here (with thinking, objective people, anyways).

Post something factual other than smearing with innuendo, please.

Wears diapers at Night Says:
you can always tell what kind of person somebody is when you look at the people they associate themselves with.

Oh! Well there you go, you can’t read since you attribute quotes to me made by a different poster. Thanks for clearing that up!

Try Read–ing all of post 65, “Dr.”.

Sheesh

Keltoi at Night Says:
Man…it never ceases to amaze me how blind arrogance – by the powerful in both parties – leads them into such stupid behavior.

It is like Eliot Spitzer in NY

or like these guys….
Colin Powell
Douglas Feith
George Tenet
Scooter Libby
Donald Rumsfeld
John Bolton
John Ashcroft
Paul McNulty
Monica Goodling
Kyle Sampson
Tom Delay
Duke Cunningham
Jack Abramoff
Robert E. Coughlin II
Jeff Gannon/James Guckert
Bob Ney
Mark Foley
Katherine Harris
Scott McClellan
Ari Fleischer
Michael Brown
Paul Wolfowitz
Tony Blair
Dan Bartlett
Tim Griffin
Alberto Gonzales

No mention of David Vitter in LA and “what in God’s name was he thinking that he wouldn’t get caught”? Typical fake selective outrage from the reich-wing.

Can you not read or are you willfully obtuse? I said – in both parties. I cited Ryan, a Republican. They are all corrupt governors. Try honest debate, just once.

You mean like this?

One example was a public private partnership, i.e. a Toll Road. The other involved health care, funding for a Children’s Hospital.

Blag demanded quid pro quo political contributions. He’s a tick on the arse of our current political system.

The Government Industrial Monstrosity lives on…

What is to stop the governor from appointing a successor to Senator/President Elect Obama today? He does not meet criteria for impeachment yet and there will not be a trial for some time.

Yeah! He could appoint his wife, so at least she’d have that job he wanted for her…

I live in Chicago, in Blag’s neighborhood, in fact. I hear from Republican friends all the time about how corrupt he is, but then again, these are the same folks who were willing to give Sarah Palin the benefit of the doubt about whether she was stupid after seeing the Katie Couric interviews.

Is it just me or does the FBI seem rather focused on big name Dems? Spitzer, Blago, etc.

It is like Eliot Spitzer in NY – what in God’s name was he thinking that he wouldn’t get caught? That was just sex, though, this Blago bonehead is much worse, the number of indictments leveled against him just makes me go, did this guy serve an honest day in his life? And Ryan before him – same deal. Friends at TP in Illinois…well, condolences, I guess.

It makes you wonder – is there any honesty in government? For every cockroach you catch running across the kitchen floor when you turn the lights on, how many do you never see?

While the R’s have totally betrayed the conservative value of limited government, it is stuff like this that makes you – maybe – understand why you would want small government.

News conference time for the US Atty…looks like it’ll get uglier the more we learn.

The truly remarkable thing about Governor “B” as he is referred to, is that it took them this long to arrest him.